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The sixth mass extinction of life on Earth is unfolding more quickly than feared, scientists have warned. More than 30 percent of animals with...
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The sixth mass extinction of life on Earth is unfolding more quickly than feared, and amounts to a “biological annihilation” of the planet’s wildlife,...
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The body size of some whale species diminished by several metres decades before 20th-century factory fishing caused their populations to collapse, researchers said Thursday....
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Islands and populated coastal areas are the world’s “hotspots” for invasive species, which can upend entire ecosystems and drive local animals and plants to...
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Illegal poaching, logging and fishing of sometimes critically endangered species is taking place in nearly half of the world’s most protected natural sites, environmental...
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Nearly half of endangered mammals and a quarter of birds are already harmed by climate change — a much bigger segment than previously thought,...
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A diet of corn is turning wild hamsters in northeastern France into deranged cannibals that devour their offspring, alarmed researchers have reported. “There’s clearly...
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Wild giraffe numbers have plummeted by 40 percent in the past three decades and the species is now “vulnerable” to extinction, a top conservation...
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Fishing and shipping nations gather in Portugal next week to consider the fate of the endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna and overharvested Mediterranean swordfish, two...
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Nearly three-fifths of all animals with a backbone — fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals — have been wiped out since 1970 by human...